Friday, April 29, 2011

Oh How I Love Joe Sola's Latest Project

More Cinematic Artforum Reviews of Joe Sola's Work:

From the 323 Projects Website: "Sola hired a professional voiceover artist to read Artforum Magazine reviews of his past work. When combined with strange soundtracks, the resulting works resemble the audio structure of film trailers for big-budget blockbuster movies, while engaging questions of appropriation, authorship, connections between Hollywood and Visual Culture."

Sola's Studio Visit is one of my favorite all-time artworks. I watch it every other year when I show it to one of my upperdivision classes and I never cease to laugh. It's featured in both of the videos above but it takes on a whole new level of hilarity when read with a soundtrack resembling a Blaxploitation or Tarantino film. Sola is one of those great artists that makes it okay to make funny work. I have to keep that in mind as the plot for the VB project continues to form.

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I am fascinated by Conceptual Art, photography and its relationship to sculpture and installation, artist’s books, appropriation, the Earthworks movement, and the narrative as found in constructed imagery. Found photographs, maps, 16th century cabinets of curiosity in the form of the wunderkammer, fake desserts, swimming pools, worn and dilapidated objects, obsessive behavior in collecting, repetition, and storytelling are all important influences. Recently, my interests have expanded to include clandestine activities through artist correspondence, interventions, and guerilla art projects. I am also a photographer of objects - the object transformed into a self-portrait, a representation of place, a distant memory, or a symbol of fixation.
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